The recent collapse of the 31-month-old Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi government headed by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in Maharastra, reminded of political developments in two northeastern states .
Political pundits observed that the BJP aiming to make the northeast region a "Congress Mukt" (Congress free) political bastion, is now running governments in four of the eight northeastern states Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.